Diagnose

The keyword is in the metadata and the store is not showing the app

Updated 2026-10-03

What you are seeing

The word is in the title, the subtitle, the keyword field, or the Play text, and a store search does not show your app for it.

What to check

Confirm the word is in an indexed field for that store. On the App Store that is the title, subtitle, or keyword field. On Play that is the title, short description, or full description.

Search the storefront you localized. A US keyword field does not cover the Japanese storefront.

Give a new build or a metadata change time to be indexed, then check the live result again. A rank you have not measured is not coverage yet.

What RocketASO does

Research suggestions are not tracked for you. A term counts as grounded when its words appear in the listing text, and the keyword step stays open until grounded terms have a live store rank.

Does repeating the word make the store show it?

Repeating a word you already used in the title spends characters. Check the live search result for that storefront instead of adding the word again.

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